Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantrefs
Literary usage of Cantrefs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tribal System in Wales: Being Part of an Inquiry Into the Structure and by Frederic Seebohm (1904)
"... AND cantrefs OF ANGLESEY. IN order to secure a firm basis from which to work
... according to the Extents, was divided into three cantrefs, each of them ..."
2. A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest by John Edward Lloyd (1912)
"THE cantrefs OF MORGANNWG. The well-sunned plains which, from the mouth of the
Tawe to that of the Wye, skirt the northern shore of the Bristol Channel ..."
3. A Popular History of the Ancient Britons Or the Welsh People: From the by John Evans (1901)
"This kingdom was divided into six parts. The first was Caredigion, our Cardiganshire,
which contained four cantrefs and ten ..."
4. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association (1858)
"Gwyneth, or North Wales, consisted then of fifteen cantrefs, which had in ...
Powys consisted of fourteen cantrefs, subdivided into forty ..."
5. Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales by Thomas Nicholas (1872)
"It is notable that these cantrefs by no means include the whole of modern Glamorgan.
Apparently all the undulating district usually called " the Vale of ..."
6. Y Cymmrodor by Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1890)
"... and the four cantrefs of Ceredigion; which are called the seven ... whilst a
little lower down we are told that the seven cantrefs which made up ancient ..."
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